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29%OFFCarlos Fraenkel - Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World - 9780691151038 - V9780691151038
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Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World

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Description for Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: GTJ; HPQ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 225 x 22. Weight in Grams: 394.
Teaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life. Philosophical toolkit in tow, Carlos Fraenkel invites readers on a tour around the world as he meets students at Palestinian and Indonesian universities, lapsed Hasidic Jews in New York, teenagers from poor neighborhoods in Brazil, and the descendants of Iroquois warriors in Canada. They turn to Plato and Aristotle, al-Ghaz?l? and Maimonides, Spinoza and Nietzsche for help to tackle big questions: Does God exist? Is piety worth it? Can violence be justified? What is social justice and how can we get ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
398 g
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691151038
SKU
V9780691151038
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About Carlos Fraenkel
Carlos Fraenkel teaches philosophy and religion at the University of Oxford and McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of Philosophical Religions from Plato to Spinoza, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Nation, the London Review of Books, and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications.

Reviews for Teaching Plato in Palestine: Philosophy in a Divided World
Winner of the 2015 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction, Quebec Writers' Federation One of The Australian's Books of the Year 2015 (selected by Aminatta Forna) Longlisted for the 2016 Sheikh Zayed Book Award in Arabic Culture in Other Languages What unites [the classroom conversations] is [Fraenkel's] skill in the art of posing questions designed to perplex and provoke. He ... Read more

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